Sweet 16 ideas

My oldest niece is turning 16 and I was asked to help plan. I'm hoping some of you ladies or gents can give any ideas you can think of? The party will be in April.

She is doing a black and white theme and asking everyone to come in black and white. She is going to wear a different color (maybe burgundy red if she wears the dress she was looking at yesterday).

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Where is she having the party? How many guests?

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What kind of ideas are you looking for?

*Maybe for favors, her picture on a black & white cookie

*Place Cards in zebra-print frames

* Invites like these:


* Black, white and silver balloon centerpieces

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Black &White cookies as favors! Dortoni's in Levittown makes amazing ones.

For decorations, you can do black and white balloons in clusters in corners of the room, and then black and white streamers. You can make the streamers go from the center of the ceiling to the corners of the room. Then get some of the round, paper, lanterns, the ones with NO lights in them, and get some in black and some in white and hang them in different lengths from the ceiling, they will look great hanging from there!

You can then get some clear, stringed, Christmas lights and hang them around the party area. They will give a pretty look to the party and look like twinkling lights around the party area!

For the tables, you can alternate between the tables, do one table with a black tablecloth and white napkins and the next table can have a white tablecloth and black napkins, OR just do it all one way, like all white tablecloths with black napkins or all black tablecloths with white napkins.

For the centerpieces, there are SO many different things you can do. YOu can get black vases and fill them with white roses, or white carnations, or different kinds of white flowers. Or you don't even how to do flowers, there's so many different things you can do for centerpieces. In the craft stores they sell very large martini and even wine glasses, you can get them and fill them with different things, etc. You can get a clear vase and put a white pillar candle in it and then tie the outside of the vase with a black ribbon,

For your invites, you can use the same kind of decoration that's going on your cake. If that's a star or a heart, make that same symbol on the top of your invites. Just do white invites and then have a black strip going across the top and then whatever you choose to be on the cake, the heart or the star, make that be just above that black line/strip, OR you can have the number 16 be above the strip. I'm sure the more you look around at invites, you'll find ones you like. You can even do black scroll work down the sides of the invites to dress it up a bit.

Message edited 1/12/2009 12:05:48 PM.

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Since she is child #1 of 5, they are keeping it semi-low key and doing it at a VFW hall.

These ideas are AMAZING. I love the B/W cookie idea. I hope they do too! Keep the ideas coming!

ETA about 120 people, MOSTLY family.

Message edited 1/12/2009 2:02:44 PM.

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Also you can make cds with songs with colors in them.

Is this local?

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Babylon area